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| Posted by: Robt 12:06 pm EDT 04/02/23 | |
| In reply to: Haha, yup (nm) - MockingbirdGirl 09:19 am EDT 04/02/23 | |
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| Also, in the quote you give, White is telling us --from modern day author to modern day reader--Arthur was like a scientist; it was not spoken by one of the characters during the era in which the book was set. | |
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| re: Haha, yup (nm) | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 01:06 pm EDT 04/02/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Haha, yup (nm) - Robt 12:06 pm EDT 04/02/23 | |
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| Oh, please. Have you read the novel? It's deliberately full of anachronisms, both used by the narrator and by the characters themselves (especially Merlyn, who own a complete set of the Encyclopeadia Britannica and references the as-yet-undiscovered island of Bermuda). There are plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize this production. Not being sufficiently historically faithful to the actual Middle Ages is not one of them, since it was never intended to be. |
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| re: Haha, yup (nm) | |
| Posted by: Robt 04:22 pm EDT 04/02/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Haha, yup (nm) - MockingbirdGirl 01:06 pm EDT 04/02/23 | |
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| Yes, I have read the novel--and its individual components in their original versions--many times. White, as author uses anachronisms because he is a 20th century author who wrote his books for a contemporary audience. He was not attempting to write in the voice of someone from any mythic or historic period. The only "in story" anachronisms come from the character Merlyn (as White spells it), because it is explained that he lives backward. So a character in Sorkin's "Camelot" using an anachronistic word like "scientist' is different from White using it in auctorial voice in his novel. That was my point. |
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